My Take | Hong Kong lawmaker Ng Leung-sing is making a name for himself – for all the wrong reasons
Legislator representing the financial sector made a fool of himself by accusing missing booksellers of cavorting with prostitutes in Shenzhen
People in finance may have been called “banksters” but they are at least supposed to be smart.
However, judging by the recent performance of Ng Leung-sing, the lawmaker who represents the financial sector, you have to wonder if this stereotypical image isn’t quite true – the bit about intelligence, that is. Even leaving aside the sheer indecency of the statement, what Ng said about the five missing booksellers was just dim.
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He apologised yesterday, after sparking a public outcry, but insisted his theory, based on an online rumour, was no better or worse than any other theories about their disappearance.
Ng earlier told other legislators that Lee Bo, one of the missing, and his colleagues were smuggled out of Hong Kong to visit prostitutes but were caught by public security officers in the act.
Yesterday, after being roundly denounced by people across the entire political spectrum, he made an apology to Lee’s wife for causing her discomfort. But he added: “That is to let [people] know about a means of leaving Hong Kong – that is, the so-called ‘hair washing’ boat.”